Just popping into the bubbles before dinner!

Then I posted my reply and then decided that after reading Anne’s post, remembered I hadn’t written in my journal for a while. So here I am… not trying to take away from Jienn’s journal, but compliment it. And Khylan’s as well. Khylan was talking about a leaflet drop… and between them they got me thinking (as does everything else here in RedBubble).

I think I was extemely lucky to sell 2 cat tshirts in the short space of time that I did (within 2 weeks of joining RB) but I haven’t sold anything else since. If it was a shop front on a street I would be mortified and would be panicking that my advertising wasn’t working. But then… I’m not advertising. Just telling friends and family all about RedBubble and how fab it is. But they’re not in the market for buying things…

So… more thinking…

I might do a letterdrop too. Thanks Khylan, I hadn’t thought of advertising with flyers! Great idea! I could get my son to help me drop them all off around various streets! Maybe his school will even let me put a couple of flyers in the front office? You never know until you ask!

I’m also thinking of creating a site at Cafepress and DeviantArt as well, and the guys at Tafe swear by the MySpace site (of course all they do is chat and stuff but still… it’d be advertising in a way.). But I just don’t know about MySpace… It doesn’t feel right to me… every time I’ve been there (only once or twice) it looks uninviting and sorry to say, dodgy looking. Someone, I think it was ThickBlackOutline, mentioned Flickr too, but I’m not sure about that one either. It doesn’t really say what its for except to show photos, but then I read somewhere that you can’t put that it can be bought somewhere else. Maybe I read it wrong.

Doing the multimedia diploma at Tafe is helping understand the web world a bit better and hopefully by the end of July my website assignment will be uploaded into their site at designandmedia.com.au… I’m hoping (planning!) I can actually create something worthwhile looking at!!! It’s one thing to have it pretty on paper, but to create it in html is something else. Hopefully at the very least, the lecturers will discover RB!

And by the way, team of RedBubble, thanks for the gifs and putting my pics on the home page!

Journal Comments

Hey georgiegirl, hope you’ve had a nice week so far… I like everyone am anxious to sell something, but as well I am not sure why… validation of some sort I suspect… hmm I get a bad energy from myspace, I had an account for a very short time by accident from some publicity I was doing for a music festival. There’s heaps of stuff on there artists, writers and musos, but I was getting these sordid icky emails from people inviting me to these ‘events’ (you can imagine), icky… there are young kids on myspace for goodness sake, I try not to be prudish but as a mum, the line has to be drawn at some spot… I like the purity of the bubble, no advertising, but I did check out deviantart this morning and it seems not bad will look at it better soon…<br>

mind you I havn’t sold any prints here but I have been offered some freelance work which is sooooo exciting, just keep positive, something will happen…:-)

kseriphyn
over 9 years ago

Doing the multimedia diploma at Tafe is helping understand the web world a bit better Ooh… that’s excellent.

I’m not sure about the other places: Deviantart, Flicker… I get the feeling they’re heavily saturated places. And Myspace? I had a myspace and let me tell you this. If you like to have friends named bobo and get spam from them. Go right ahead. I don’t know if I did myspace right, but I didn’t get much out of if. But that’s just my take.